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1,274,415 | Deinococcus (from the , "deinos", "dreadful, strange" and κόκκος, "kókkos", "granule") is in the monotypic family Deinococcaceae, and one genus of three in the order Deinococcales of the bacterial phylum "Deinococcota" highly resistant to environmental hazards. These bacteria have thick cell walls that give them Gram-p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23545980 | 1,273,723 |
654 | Stealth is a key aspect of the F-35's design, and radar cross-section (RCS) is minimized through careful shaping of the airframe and the use of radar-absorbent materials (RAM); visible measures to reduce RCS include alignment of edges, serration of skin panels, and the masking of the engine face and turbine. Additional... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11812 | 654 |
2,161,108 | Children are born with this condition and their symptoms can be seen immediately. In the early stages these can appear quite mild; weak muscle tone (often extreme hypotonia), lack of neonatal reflexes, seizures and abnormal (dysmorphic) facial features such as widely spaced eyes, a low nasal bridge, low set ears and an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58817726 | 2,159,874 |
1,182,612 | On 19 August 1942, the Dieppe raid a major landing took place at the French coastal town of Dieppe. The main force was provided by the 2nd Canadian Infantry Division supported by No. 3 and No. 4 Commando. The mission of No. 3 Commando was to neutralize a German coastal battery, near Berneval-le-Grand, which could fire ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27342087 | 1,181,987 |
630,352 | Pharmacogenomics was first recognized by Pythagoras around 510 BC when he made a connection between the dangers of fava bean ingestion with hemolytic anemia and oxidative stress. This identification was later validated and attributed to deficiency of G6PD in the 1950s and called favism. Although the first official publ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1004486 | 630,014 |
344,207 | The Sicilian continued to be shunned by most leading players at the start of the twentieth century, as 1...e5 held centre stage. Capablanca, World Champion from 1921 to 1927, famously denounced it as an opening where "Black's game is full of holes". Similarly, James Mason wrote, "Fairly tried and found wanting, the Sic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=497994 | 344,026 |
686,265 | The Marine Physical Laboratory of Scripps Institution of Oceanography created "FLIP" with funding from the Office of Naval Research and the assistance of the commercial naval architecture firm The Glosten Associates. "FLIP" was originally built to support research into the fine-scale phase and amplitude fluctuations in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3159232 | 685,908 |
1,187,042 | Additional long-term impacts of SOD may be inferred from regeneration patterns in areas that have experienced severe mortality. These patterns may indicate which tree species will replace tanoak in diseased areas. Such transitions will be of particular importance in forest types that were relatively poor in tree specie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=589513 | 1,186,411 |
1,810,409 | The kinematic data obtained from either of these methods can be used to determine fundamental motion attributes such as velocity, acceleration, joint angles, and the sequencing and timing of kinematic events. These fundamental attributes can be used to quantify various higher level attributes, such as the physical abil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65286671 | 1,809,386 |
522,851 | The original version of the roadster ran on 28 Johnson Controls Optima Yellow Top lead–acid batteries in series, which produced 150 kW (200 horsepower) and 177 lbs·ft (240 N·m) of torque at 336 volts and accelerated the car from a standstill to in 4.07 seconds. The single gear ratio limited the car's maximum speed to a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=282973 | 522,579 |
1,271,353 | The SRO announced a provisional 2010 calendar featuring twelve events, although host circuits were not named. A revised twelve event calendar was announced on 21 October 2009, removing the previously planned rounds for Argentina, Australia, Bulgaria, Italy, Romania, and Russia. Eastern Creek Raceway had been part of th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22310257 | 1,270,662 |
1,348,464 | A typical example is that an anti-diabetic medication in the real world will often be used in people with (latent or apparent) diabetes-induced kidney problems, but if a study of its efficacy and safety excluded some subsets of people with kidney problems (to escape confounding), the study's results may not reflect wel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54543598 | 1,347,722 |
1,516,776 | Werner Jaffé (Frankfurt, October 27, 1914 – Caracas, May 3, 2009) was a chemist and university professor. He received his doctoral degree at the University of Zurich under the supervision of the Nobel Prize winner Paul Karrer. After graduating, Jaffé arrived in Venezuela in 1940 and showed interest in the area of nutri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29302481 | 1,515,924 |
1,708,933 | Intake of radioactive materials into the body tends to increase the risk of cancer, and possibly other stochastic effects. The International Commission on Radiological Protection has proposed a model whereby the incidence of cancers increases linearly with effective dose at a rate of 5.5% per sievert. This model is wid... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35752192 | 1,707,974 |
2,172,381 | Samples can be collected on artificial or natural substrata, either in situ or in the laboratory. There must be a series of samples exposed to different concentrations of contaminant and a control sample. In situ sampling involves setting up a sampling device in an aquatic ecosystem and allowing it to colonize for some... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36065288 | 2,171,140 |
1,331,858 | The two biggest upsets of the second round were #6 Vanderbilt's win over #3 Washington State (East Regional) and #7 UNLV's win over #2 Wisconsin (Midwest Regional). Vanderbilt won a heart-stopper, 78–74, in double overtime. UNLV won by six points, 74–68, in their biggest win since the 1990s. Other overtime games includ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4228118 | 1,331,129 |
624,071 | After Chief Martial Law Administrator (later president) and Chief of Army Staff General Zia-ul-Haq came to power (see Operation Fair Play), further advancements were made to enrich uranium and consolidate the nuclear development programme. On March 11, 1983, the PAEC under Munir Ahmad Khan carried out the first success... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3923951 | 623,738 |
1,741,697 | It has been difficult to illustrate a clear link between psychological interventions and the successful reduction of offenses. Nothing has brought about the complete eradication of crime in patients being treated using this practice. At times this difficulty has contributed to a profound pessimism about the effectivene... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10521948 | 1,740,713 |
279,004 | X-ray crystallography is one of the more efficient and important methods for attempting to decipher the three dimensional configuration of a folded protein. To be able to conduct X-ray crystallography, the protein under investigation must be located inside a crystal lattice. To place a protein inside a crystal lattice,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52085 | 278,854 |
1,768,395 | The fabrication of the two-element achromatic objective lens, the largest lens ever made at the time, caused years of delay. The famous large telescope maker Alvan Clark was in charge of the optical design. He gave the contract for casting the high quality optical glass blanks, of a size never before attempted, to the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3521100 | 1,767,401 |
1,341,076 | Given quantum theory's perceived implications for the study of parapsychology and telepathy, the group cultivated patrons such as the Central Intelligence Agency, Defense Intelligence Agency, and the human potential movement. In 1972, the CIA and DIA set up a research program, jokingly called ESPionage, which financed ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31613712 | 1,340,343 |
703,891 | Psychologist Julian Jaynes, in his 1976 book "The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind", wrote that the test is "routinely administered as an indicator of schizophrenia," and that while not all schizophrenic patients have trouble drawing a person, when they do, it is very clear evidence of a d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8449988 | 703,523 |
1,035,522 | The business scope expanded significantly when it acquired the rival biotechnology and cell culture company Life Technologies in 2000; Life had been formed in 1983 when GIBCO (Grand Island Biological Company) which had been founded around 1960 in New York, merged with a reagent company called Bethesda Research Laborato... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1923488 | 1,034,982 |
239,358 | Lysosomes are involved in a group of genetically inherited deficiencies, or mutations called lysosomal storage diseases (LSD), inborn errors of metabolism caused by a dysfunction of one of the enzymes. The rate of incidence is estimated to be 1 in 5,000 births, and the true figure expected to be higher as many cases ar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18120 | 239,238 |
83,804 | Around the same time, Hypatia was adopted by feminists, and her life and death began to be viewed in the light of the women's rights movement. The author Carlo Pascal claimed in 1908 that her murder was an anti-feminist act and brought about a change in the treatment of women, as well as the decline of the Mediterranea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38375 | 83,770 |
977,926 | Upon graduation from Yale in 1874, Halsted entered Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. Historians are not certain why Halsted attended medical school. Some believe he was inspired by his father's involvement with medical organizations. Others think he couldn't imagine himself in the family business.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2394191 | 977,415 |
1,033,397 | In 1839 many of the defeated Carlist forces sought refuge in France from retribution of the Spanish government. The French government resorted to a familiar method of unburdening itself of unwanted refugees, offering Carlist refugees enlistment in the Foreign Legion. On October 1, 1839, the 4th Battalion of the Foreign... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8868718 | 1,032,861 |
2,008,713 | The Me Too movement was another major social transformation done to the human rights and gender equality progression where it was in protest against assault and sexual harassment against women. The hashtag #MeToo started circulating on the Internet in October 2017 introduced by an American activist, Tarana Burke in 200... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38824009 | 2,007,561 |
1,980,971 | Furcacauda is a genus of thelodontid agnathan from the Lower Devonian of Canada, and is the type genus of the order Furcacaudiformes. Furcacaudiform thelodontids were deep water jawless vertebrates with symmetrical fork and lobed-finned tails and scales smaller than typical loganellid and nikoliviid thelodonti scales. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18905876 | 1,979,833 |
428,423 | Geotechnical engineering is the subdiscipline of geological engineering that deals with safely excavating, stabilizing, and monitoring the rock and soil surrounding underground excavations and surface construction, as well as managing ground natural and induced settlement of buildings, stability of slopes and fills, an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67662946 | 428,213 |
1,831,180 | From the mid-1960s to the early 1970s, Monash became the centre of student radicalism in Australia. It was the site of many mass student demonstrations, particularly concerning Australia's role in Vietnam War and conscription. The origins of mass student demonstrations in Melbourne were those against capital punishment... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17886423 | 1,830,133 |
109,662 | Howard Robinson is a philosopher who has concentrated his research within the philosophy of mind. Taking what has been through the latter part of the last century an unfashionable stance, he has consistently argued against those explanations of sensory experience that would reduce them to physical origins. He has never... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21402758 | 109,617 |
861,688 | LISA will be able to detect the nearly monochromatic gravitational waves emanating of close binaries consisting of two compact stellar objects (white dwarfs, neutron stars, and black holes) in the Milky Way. At low frequencies these are actually expected to be so numerous that they form a source of (foreground) noise f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=364369 | 861,229 |
1,679,131 | The Radio Plasma Imager (RPI) used pulses of radio waves to "sound" nearly the entire volume of the Earth's magnetic field. With its tip-to-tip antenna, it is one of the biggest sensors ever flown in space. Like a policeman's radar detector, the RPI's 10-watt transmitter sent out a burst of radio waves, which reflected... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1090498 | 1,678,188 |
949,404 | Gregory H. Adamian, a major driving force in the college's development, became the fourth president in 1970. Under his guidance, the college became accredited to confer four-year Bachelor of Arts degrees in 1971 and graduate degrees in 1973. During this time, the school also changed its name to Bentley College. In 2002... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=509227 | 948,900 |
1,876,509 | While the development of an aerial incendiary machine by the CSIRO was progressing the Forests Commission Victoria was developing a system for use with helicopters. The DIAD (Delayed Action Incendiary Devices) was a large double-ended match with a length of safety fuse between. Forestry Tasmania started using DIADs aro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57882206 | 1,875,431 |
2,065,297 | The Bears ended their win drought with a 5–3 victory against Portland. After having gone one-for-18 on the power play in the previous five games, Hershey scored a season-high five power play goals against the Pirates, including a hat trick by Crabb. Taffe recorded five assists, the team's season-high points total for a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38828912 | 2,064,106 |
1,990,743 | Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska was born in Sokołów Podlaski, Poland, on April 25, 1925. In 1928, her father, Franciszek Kielan, was offered a job for the Association of Agriculture and Trade Cooperatives in Warsaw, to which her family moved for five years. Zofia and family returned to Warsaw in 1934 and lived in Żoliborz - a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13230893 | 1,989,600 |
152,162 | For instance suppose quicksort is used as sorting algorithm, with a fixed element selected as first pivot element. The algorithm starts comparing the pivot with all other elements to separate them into those less and those greater than it, and the relative sizes of those groups will determine the final place of the piv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12684962 | 152,094 |
171,226 | The cause of de Quervain's disease is not established. Evidence regarding a possible relation with activity and occupation is debated. A systematic review of potential risk factors discussed in the literature did not find any evidence of a causal relationship with activity or occupation. However, researchers in France ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=271672 | 171,136 |
1,907,894 | The Nutritional Immunology and Molecular Medicine Laboratory was founded in 2002 to investigate fundamental mechanisms of gut enteric immunity, and identifying biomarkers and therapeutic targets for inflammatory and immune-mediated diseases. The center has discovered the mechanism of action underlying the anti-inflamma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1493799 | 1,906,797 |
1,774,627 | The concept of critical periods is a widely accepted and prominent theme in development, with strong implications to developmental plasticity. Critical periods establish a time frame in which the shaping of neural networks can be carried out. During these critical periods in development, plasticity occurs as a result o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25253854 | 1,773,630 |
2,383 | In 1941, Zuse followed his earlier machine up with the Z3, the world's first working electromechanical programmable, fully automatic digital computer. The Z3 was built with 2000 relays, implementing a 22 bit word length that operated at a clock frequency of about 5–10 Hz. Program code was supplied on punched film while... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7878457 | 2,383 |
365,870 | Another early instance of ray casting came in 1976, when Scott Roth created a flip book animation in Bob Sproull's computer graphics course at Caltech. The scanned pages are shown as a video on the right. Roth's computer program noted an edge point at a pixel location if the ray intersected a bounded plane different fr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26000 | 365,679 |
158,419 | Since the early 21st century, opportunities to take advantage of improvements in electronic communication technology to resolve the limitations and costs of the electrical grid have become apparent. Technological limitations on metering no longer force peak power prices to be averaged out and passed on to all consumers... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13201685 | 158,338 |
1,133,584 | A commission appointed by Governor Chiles published a report in 1995 stating that South Florida was unable to sustain its growth, and the deterioration of the environment was negatively affecting daily life for residents in South Florida. The environmental decline was predicted to harm tourism and commercial interests ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17601646 | 1,132,991 |
287,880 | The condition was initially described by Dr. James Paget. In a paper published in 1877, Paget told of five patients with "a rare disease of bones" which presented with slowly progressive bone deformities in the 4th and 5th decades of age. Strikingly, the first patient was described to have many of the classic complicat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=650007 | 287,724 |
328,259 | The decision to proceed with the B.2 versions of the Vulcan was made in May 1956, being developed by Avro's chief designer Roy Ewans. The first B.2 was anticipated to be around the 45th aircraft of the 99 then on order. As well as being able to achieve greater heights over targets, operational flexibility was believed ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44070 | 328,085 |
1,191,691 | Other railroads had by this time experimented with low frequency (less than 60 Hz) alternating current (AC) systems. These low-frequency systems had the AC advantage of higher transmission voltages, reducing resistive losses over long distances, as well as the typically DC advantage of easy motor control as universal m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20193516 | 1,191,056 |
565,330 | Improvement in long-range shore-based patrol and conventional ship-based ASW helicopter capability combined with the increasing difficulty maintaining surplus WWII carriers led to most of these ships being retired or docked by smaller nations from the 1970s to the mid-1980s. This trend in ASW force draw-down only accel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1784746 | 565,040 |
1,937,578 | The founder of teleological behaviorism is Howard Rachlin, an Emeritus Research Professor of Psychology at the State University of New York, Stony Brook. Originally focusing his work on operant behavior, he eventually became interested in the concepts of free-will as they applied to Behavioral Economics and turned his ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35287906 | 1,936,470 |
1,061,599 | "Tullibee" subsequently participated in sonar evaluation tests with British destroyer in the Caribbean Sea in two separate deployments between April and June 1976, before undergoing another extended upkeep period. The submarine conducted ASW operations and local operations into the fall of 1976. In October 1976, the sh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=424010 | 1,061,046 |
351,219 | Loitering munitions that are capable of making autonomous attack decisions (man out of the loop) raise moral, ethical, and international humanitarian law concerns because a human being is not involved in making the actual decision to attack and potentially kill humans, as is the case with fire-and-forget missiles in co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53703349 | 351,036 |
620,597 | Because of their various properties, LCPs are useful for electrical and mechanical parts, food containers, and any other applications requiring chemical inertness and high strength. LCP is particularly good for microwave frequency electronics due to low relative dielectric constants, low dissipation factors, and commer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4721451 | 620,282 |
2,032,932 | Australian-born Madeleine Scerri also made her Olympic debut at the 2008 Games. She qualified for the Games by using a wildcard to enter the women's 100 metre freestyle event after her personal best time of 58.11 seconds set at a contest in Australia did not meet the "B" (FINA/Invitation) qualifying standard for the ev... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17438648 | 2,031,760 |
1,563,284 | Bioprinting focuses on the individual care rather than developing a universal treatment plan for all patients. Personalized medicine is expensive and increases the disparity between the rich and poor. Since 3D printing is an individual treatment, the general public assumes that it may prevent people with financial issu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50098306 | 1,562,397 |
345,501 | The second use of a gas turbine in an armored fighting vehicle was in 1954 when a unit, PU2979, specifically developed for tanks by C. A. Parsons and Company, was installed and trialed in a British Conqueror tank. The Stridsvagn 103 was developed in the 1950s and was the first mass-produced main battle tank to use a tu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58664 | 345,320 |
602,012 | For the Canadian Post-Secondary Student, it is considered to be a benefit to add a co-operative work term to an undergraduate degree. Jeela Jones, representing the University of Ottawa, completed a qualitative study on students' co-operative work experience. She states that bringing theoretical concepts out of the clas... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=445944 | 601,703 |
475,467 | A lab-on-a-chip is a device that integrates one or several laboratory functions on a single chip that deals with handling particles in hollow microfluidic channels. It has been developed for over a decade. Advantages in handling particles at such a small scale include lowering fluid volume consumption (lower reagents c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33980770 | 475,231 |
2,059,037 | Huang was appointed to the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 2015. Her lab, "Small Things Considered", use nanotechnology and electron microscopy to investigate the properties of different materials. She is based in the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign Materials Research Laboratory. She has pionee... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61591952 | 2,057,852 |
82,069 | On May 7, eruptions similar to those in March and April resumed, and over the following days, the bulge approached its maximum size. All activity had been confined to the 350-year-old summit dome and did not involve any new magma. About 10,000 earthquakes were recorded before the May 18 event, with most concentrated in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=673671 | 82,035 |
1,424,062 | The Carnegie Science Center is the most visited museum in Pittsburgh, and is located along the Ohio River on the North Shore. It has four floors of interactive exhibits totaling over 400 exhibits, and attracts over 700,000 visitors each year. Among its attractions are the Buhl Planetarium (which features the latest in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1417208 | 1,423,260 |
938,744 | In 2006, a study reported a statistical association between environmental levels of perchlorate and changes in thyroid hormones of women with low iodine. The study authors were careful to point out that hormone levels in all the study subjects remained within normal ranges. The authors also indicated that they did not ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=611177 | 938,243 |
2,197,443 | A unique challenge arises in trying to grow impurity-free films of a catalyst in Chemical vapor deposition (CVD). Ruthenium metal activates C–H and C–C bonds, that aids C–H and C–C bond scission. This creates a potential catalytic decomposition path for all metal-organic CVD precursors that is likely to lead to signifi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26751334 | 2,196,192 |
1,200,732 | Changes in benthic biota have far-reaching impacts on biogeochemical cycles in the coastal zone and beyond. In the illuminated zone, benthic microphytes and macrophytes mediate biogeochemical fluxes through primary production, nutrient storage and sediment stabilization and act as a habitat and food source for a variet... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65970498 | 1,200,091 |
931,328 | Although an advanced weapon when it was introduced, by the outbreak of World War II advances in aircraft would have made it obsolete but for the introduction of the high-velocity round and new director designs. It was intended that the curtain of fire it threw up would be sufficient to deter attacking aircraft, which i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1643282 | 930,837 |
265,292 | The Army is looking at five criteria to downselect JMR-TD entries: how much the design advances the services' science and technology goals; whether the design meets performance specifications; how well the demonstrator validates specifications; whether the competitor has kept to their schedule; and whether the company ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29347958 | 265,149 |
921,384 | Interpretation of the responses will vary depending on the examiner and what type of scoring was used. It is common that the standard scoring systems are used more in research settings than clinical settings. Individuals can select certain scoring systems if they have the goal to evaluate a specific variable such as mo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=546431 | 920,898 |
111,420 | An understanding of the relationship between electricity and magnetism began in 1819 with work by Hans Christian Ørsted, a professor at the University of Copenhagen, who discovered, by the accidental twitching of a compass needle near a wire, that an electric current could create a magnetic field. This landmark experim... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19716 | 111,375 |
896,982 | The precise location of the port in "Nova Albion" was carefully guarded to keep it secret from the Spaniards, and several of Drake's maps may have been altered to this end. All first-hand records from the voyage, including logs, paintings and charts, were lost when Whitehall Palace burned in 1698. A bronze plaque inscr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64312042 | 896,510 |
101,106 | Once the game turned profitable, Digital Extremes found themselves in the position of needing to generate content for the game to maintain its audience. Because they retained their 250-person staff throughout this process, they were able to expand upon content quickly, and soon hired in another 250 developers for "Warf... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38333096 | 101,061 |
230,908 | Research from the late 1800s to the 1980s suggests a trend of intentional stockings of non-indigenous fish into ponds, lakes and rivers in the United States. At that time, little was known about environmental impacts, or long-term effects of new species establishment and spread as a result of "fish rescue and transfer"... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=245146 | 230,790 |
993,051 | In 1963, as a professor at Cornell, Allan Bloom served as a faculty member of the Cornell Branch of the Telluride Association, an organization focused on intellectual development and self-governance. The students received free room and board in the Telluride House on the Cornell University campus and assumed the manage... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=84444 | 992,534 |
408,599 | The Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies each contain a central supermassive black hole (SMBH), these being Sagittarius A* (c. ) and an object within the P2 concentration of Andromeda's nucleus (). These black holes will converge near the centre of the newly formed galaxy over a period that may take millions of years, due ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7901784 | 408,398 |
210,689 | Some academics took a purist approach to the Böhm–Jacopini result and argued that even instructions like codice_1 and codice_2 from the middle of loops are bad practice as they are not needed in the Böhm–Jacopini proof, and thus they advocated that all loops should have a single exit point. This purist approach is embo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45459 | 210,582 |
1,626,299 | The finished film was streamed through the website www.firstorbit.org in a global YouTube premiere on 12 April 2011. On the day of release the film was viewed 1.3 million times within 24 hours and 2.3 million times within 48 hours. In addition to this online première the film opened on over 1600 screens around the worl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31316600 | 1,625,381 |
1,375,606 | PUBS is a type of fetal blood sampling which was originally developed to determine the presence of hereditary abnormalities. Currently, it can detect a number of abnormalities including pH levels, oxygen levels, chromosomal issues, and infections. In 1958, James L.S. recognised that umbilical cord blood gas analysis ca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13421323 | 1,374,845 |
1,195,652 | Mantell was born in Lewes, Sussex as the fifth-born child of Thomas Mantell, a shoemaker, and Sarah Austen. He was raised in a small cottage in St. Mary's Lane with his two sisters and four brothers. As a youth, he showed a particular interest in the field of geology. He explored pits and quarries in the surrounding ar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=327498 | 1,195,012 |
811,016 | The University of Karachi's library, known as "Dr. Mahmud Hussain Library", has houses well over 400,000 volumes dating back to the 1600s, for researchers as well as for use by students of advance studies and faculty members. The library became the depository of the personal book collection of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1791959 | 810,584 |
53,127 | Weber is also known for his thesis combining economic sociology and the sociology of religion, emphasising the importance of cultural influences embedded in religion as driving factors of capitalism. This is in contrast to Marx's historical materialism, which considers the material base of any economic mode of producti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19455 | 53,107 |
1,610,717 | Born in Brooklyn, New York, Fogel graduated from Berkeley High School in 1968, after winning the Berkeley yoyo championship (boys' division) in early 1965. His father David Fogel was a criminologist (PhD, UC Berkeley) and his mother Muriel Fogel (née Finkelstein) was a homemaker and later a teacher in the Head Start Pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40422645 | 1,609,812 |
2,097,388 | Endogenous stimuli consist of chemical, biological, and physical stimuli that occur naturally in the body, such as changes in pH, temperature, enzymatic action, pressure, and shear forces. More specifically, endogenous chemical stimuli include environmental pH, redox reactions, and chemical gradients, each of which are... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70660722 | 2,096,180 |
710,270 | 2.25 million students have studied abroad since 1978. 340,000 were studying abroad in 2011 which was an increase by 20% over the previous year. In total 818,400 have returned to China with this occurring in particular in recent years. 186,200 returned to China in 2011 which was an increase by 38% over the previous year... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=277914 | 709,899 |
610,841 | While some restrictions on user freedom, e.g. concerning nuclear war, seem to enjoy moral support among most free software developers, it is generally believed that such agendas should not be served through software licenses; among other things because of practical aspects such as resulting legal uncertainties and prob... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18932568 | 610,530 |
63,068 | With the introduction of the Nvidia GeForce 8 series, and then new generic stream processing unit GPUs became a more generalized computing devices. Today, parallel GPUs have begun making computational inroads against the CPU, and a subfield of research, dubbed GPU Computing or GPGPU for "General Purpose Computing on GP... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=390214 | 63,043 |
1,626,902 | Wind was an enthusiastic and respected lecturer at many institutions. He was a key example of the encyclopedic phenomenon of the "Warburgian scholar" in the American academic scene, equally at home in art, literature, history, and philosophy, and giving "pyrotechnical lectures." Says one student of Wind's at Smith, "hi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5240152 | 1,625,984 |
1,637,338 | Wagner continued to lecture and to lead the unique institution until his death in 1885. The Board of Trustees then appointed Joseph Leidy, a biologist of international reputation, to head its scientific and educational programs. Leidy's appointment ushered in an active and productive era in which the Institute's missio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2378076 | 1,636,413 |
305,183 | A Marxist current critical of the Bolsheviks emerged and as such "Luxemburg's workerism and spontaneism are exemplary of positions later taken up by the far-left of the period – Pannekoek, Roland Holst, and Gorter in the Netherlands, Sylvia Pankhurst in Britain, Gramsci in Italy, Lukacs in Hungary. In these formulation... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47246185 | 305,021 |
803,812 | Early studies in "S. cerevisiae" indicated that replication origins in eukaryotes might be recognized in a DNA-sequence-specific manner analogously to those in prokaryotes. In budding yeast, the search for genetic replicators lead to the identification of autonomously replicating sequences (ARS) that support efficient ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=619137 | 803,383 |
1,899,464 | Stone was an instructor in pathology at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons from 1950 to 1952 while fulfilling his medical residency requirement in pathology at NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital. In 1952, Stone moved to Los Angeles and joined the faculty of UCLA's School of Medicine, department of pathol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39688263 | 1,898,379 |
157,768 | The observation that large primates, including especially the great apes, that predominantly move quadrupedally on dry land, tend to switch to bipedal locomotion in waist deep water, has led to the idea that the origin of human bipedalism may have been influenced by waterside environments. This idea, labelled "the wadi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4210 | 157,696 |
10,824 | The U.S. Army then began testing several rifles to replace the obsolete M1. Springfield Armory's T44E4 and heavier T44E5 were essentially updated versions of the M1 chambered for the new 7.62 mm round, while Fabrique Nationale submitted their FN FAL as the T48. ArmaLite entered the competition late, hurriedly submittin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19901 | 10,819 |
339,219 | When the Athenian line was ready, according to one source, the simple signal to advance was given by Miltiades: "At them". Herodotus implies the Athenians ran the whole distance to the Persian lines, a feat under the weight of hoplite armory generally thought to be physically impossible. More likely, they marched until... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4806 | 339,039 |
1,326,022 | In 1980, EES developed a TEMPEST-approved version of the Apple II Plus for U.S. Army FORSCOM, and used it as a component in the earliest versions of the Microfix system. Fielded in 1982, the Microfix system was the first tactical system using video disk (Laserdisk) map technology providing zoom and scroll over map imag... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4424567 | 1,325,295 |
876,087 | However, many developed countries estimate input–output accounts annually and with much greater recency. This is because while most uses of the input–output analysis focus on the matrix set of inter-industry exchanges, the actual focus of the analysis from the perspective of most national statistical agencies is the be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1036651 | 875,625 |
158,365 | Many common culturable laboratory strains are deep-frozen to preserve genetically and phenotypically stable, long-term stocks. Sub-culturing and prolonged refrigerated samples may lead to loss of plasmid(s) or mutations. Common final glycerol percentages are 15, 20, and 25. From a fresh culture plate, one single colony... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19349845 | 158,284 |
1,859,979 | In the beginning the X-ray crystallography did not have a very good resolution so the initial focus was on substrate derived inhibitors instead of structurally based. The Neu5Ac-derived 2-deoxy-α-D-N-acetylneuraminic acid (2-deoxy- α-Neu5Ac) was the first template used and also the first inhibitor tried "in vivo" in a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44298290 | 1,858,911 |
325,854 | Amphiboles have great variability in chemistry, described variously as a "mineralogical garbage can" or a "mineralogical shark swimming a sea of elements". The backbone of the amphiboles is the [SiO]; it is balanced by cations in three possible positions, although the third position is not always used, and one element ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19053 | 325,681 |
141,788 | "Hack", "Starflight" and the "Ultima" series were Adams' main influences. The 1985 roguelike "Hack" inspired Adams because of its randomly generated levels, deceased character persistence and detailed mechanics. Adams cited "Ultima" series as the inspiration for his generated worlds. The body part and wound system was ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7239234 | 141,730 |
1,382,763 | On the second day of competition on July 25, four finals were contested, the women's 100 m butterfly, men's 50 m butterfly, women's 200 m individual medley, and the men's 100 m breaststroke. In the first final of day two, the women's 100 m butterfly, American Dana Vollmer won the gold after posting the top times in the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4466178 | 1,381,998 |
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